Radio Bar Kulan

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The
jumpy, cell phone clips of journalists and security officers crouching outside
the upscale Westgate Shopping Mall in the capital, Nairobi, permeated the TV
screens across Kenya for four days. Edgy
local and foreign reporters hid behind vehicles as gunfire shots, repeated
explosions and smoke emanated from a supermarket inside.

Nairobi, March 18, 2013--The Committee to Protect Journalists
is gravely concerned by a recent directive from authorities in Somalia's
semi-autonomous Puntland region banning
local broadcasters from airing content produced outside the region.

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Nairobi, June 11,
2012--A Somali radio journalist was shot by two gunmen in Mogadishu on
Friday, according to news reports. Mohamed Nur Mohamed, who was hit twice in
the abdomen, survived the attack, the reports said.

Mohamed, a
correspondent for Radio
Bar-Kulan, a U.N.-sponsored radio broadcaster with headquarters in Nairobi, was walking
home in the Hamarjajab neighborhood of the capital when the gunmen attacked
him and then fled the scene, local journalists told CPJ. Mohamed's colleagues
took him to a local hospital, where he is in stable condition, according to
news reports. It is unclear if the attack was related to his work.

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New York, April 4,
2012--At least 10 journalists were reported injured, several of them
seriously, when a bomb ripped through Somalia's newly reopened national theater
in Mogadishu, local journalists told CPJ. The blast, for which the militant
insurgent group Al-Shabaab took responsibility, killed several people,
including two of the nation's top sports officials, news
reports said.